Christmas!!

What a wonderful Christmas we had! It started Thursday (December 20th) when Craig, Sydney and I opened presents together. Sydney got a highchair from us (we decided to be practical since we were anticipating a big Christmas with family) as well as some other little toys. Her dad got her a fake remote control since she always loves to play with our real ones and guess what???...She still loves the real ones more!! On Friday evening we drove down to Houston and started our Christmas festivities at Craig's parents house. When we showed up they were on their way back from running errands so we walked in to their home and noticed everything was gone. Turns out they had moved everything to their new house as a surprise to us. So we got to spend Christmas in their new, beautiful home. On Saturday night we opened presents with Craig parents, brother, sister-in-law and nephews. It was so much fun! Then on Sunday morning we went to church and came home and opened presents with Craig's mom's family. That afternoon we drove out to the lake and celebrated Christmas with Craig's dad's family. On Monday morning (Christmas Eve) we drove over to my parents house. My brother and sister were in town and we went to church that night with the whole family. We decided to keep Sydney with us for all the singing at the beginning of the service and then took her to the nursery for the sermon part of the service. After that was over, we went and picked her back up so she could participate in the candlelight part of the service, and more singing. She LOVED it! Then we went home and had tamales and played Cranium with everyone. It was a lot of FUN!! Christmas morning we woke up and I made a really good (everyone tells me) breakfast for us. Then we opened presents with my family. Around 2pm we went to my Grandma's and had Christmas AGAIN! That's right...5 Christmases in 3 days! Sydney really raked in the gifts too...just as we predicted. We were lucky we didn't have to rent a U-Haul to get back to Dallas!! We came back Christmas night and got to unpack and hang out all day Wednesday since Craig and I were both off. What a fabulous Christmas!!

Sydney meets Santa

We took Sydney this weekend to see Santa. She didn't cry and was very intrigued by him.

8 months!!!

Wow! Mom is a little behind this month on posting all of Sydney's new accomplishments! First, she now officially has 2 TEETH!!




We have also gotten rid of her baby bath tub and now she gets to splash around in the big tub. She LOVES it!!

She loves to eat her wagon wheels!

And she is officially crawling!! She isn't very fast yet but she can definitely get to where she wants to go. Most of the time, she likes to go after our remote.